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Dr. Strangelove (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Doomsday Machine

President Muffley (Peter Sellers) asks Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) why the Soviets would build a "Doomsday Machine," thus introducing the title character (also Sellers), in the war room in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

President Muffley (Peter Sellers) asks Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) why the Soviets would build a "Doomsday Machine," thus introducing the title character (also Sellers), in the war room in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.>

Director Stanley Kubrick executes this exchange mostly in one take, Lieutenant Mandrake (Peter Sellers) confronting General Ripper (Sterling Hayden) about clear evidence that there's not a war on, in Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.>

From the credits, director Stanley Kubrick swoops into Burpelson Air Base, Peter Sellers in his first role as British Lieutenant Mandrake, with a sensible question to American General Ripper (Sterling Hayden), in Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.>

In the war room, President Muffley (Peter Sellers) entertaining advice from General Turgidson (George C. Scott), whose renegade commander has ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.>